Eurasia

It could hardly have gone worse. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s White House visit had a lot of potential. It could have produced a mineral-resources deal that would have roped Ukraine and the United States together, at least on paper, and given U.S. President Donald Trump more incentive to support Kyiv …

The approval rating of US President Donald Trump after the first month of the rule decreased slightly. Americans are worried that his actions will harm the economy (perhaps they should have been here even before the election to listen to Nobel laureates in the economy, who warned that the arrival …

Mykhailo Podolyak was cautiously optimistic about Donald Trump’s return to the White House. In an interview with Meduza in the days after the new U.S. president’s inauguration, the top advisor to Volodymyr Zelensky said he saw a change in Trump’s rhetoric towards Russia that gave him “some hope.” But in …

“You gotta be more thankful,” Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a heated exchange in the Oval Office last Friday. What was meant to be a signing ceremony for a minerals agreement quickly devolved as Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance berated Zelensky for supposedly “gambling with World …

Le débat se poursuit sur le fait de savoir si la partie de pancrace qui s’est déroulée à la Maison-Blanche vendredi était le fruit d’un traquenard organisé par Trump et Vance, ou si c’est Zelensky muni de son arrogance obstinée qui a mis le feu aux poudres. Je suis personnellement …

Selon le Premier ministre britannique Keir Starmer, le sommet européen qui a ouvert ses portes à Londres ce 2 mars est consacré à la formation d’une «coalition de volontaires» pour assurer la sécurité de l’Ukraine après la résolution du conflit. La participation serait facultative pour tous les États membres de …

Les Européens, qui cherchent à poursuivre la guerre par procuration, se disent apparemment soucieux, bien que tardivement, du rétablissement de la paix et soutiennent la diplomatie de Trump. Après avoir été malmené par le président Trump en direct à la télévision, puis poussé hors de la Maison-Blanche, l’Ukrainien Zelensky a …

On February 25, Syria held a National Dialogue Conference, which is supposed to help the country come together after years of civil war and the toppling of the Assad regime. Syria’s new president, Ahmad Shara’a, spoke at the event and warned that Syria must not be partitioned. “Syrian history has …

Kurdish autonomy is a problem that today’s Syria can’t afford. On a recent trip that I took across Syria, one thing was palpably clear: Syrians were universally elated to be free from the iron grip of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. For now, that euphoria is inspiring and sustaining a semblance of …

President Donald Trump continues to double down on his out-of-left-field proposal to take over the Gaza Strip, remove the two million Palestinians who live there, and turn it into the world’s largest beach resort. During the press gaggle on Feb. 11, before his meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, whom …